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CISC chips provide the fastest hardware and most highly optimized software currently, which is arguably more tangibly beneficial to most users than a formal pro
by reikonomusha 8y ago
CISC chips provide the fastest hardware and most highly optimized software currently, which is arguably more tangibly beneficial to most users than a formal proof. This is an empirical conclusion, of course, and isn’t evidence that RISC couldn’t be as beneficial.
- Symmetry 8y agoIs that really true? Last I heard POWER, a RISC, held the single-threaded speed record and various RISCs had been trading for the single-socket throughput. But of course POWER is very expensive and power hungry so most people at the high end use x86.